"Are we prepared to promote conditions in which the living contact with God can be reestablished? For our lives today have become godless to the point of complete vacuity. God is no longer with us in the conscious sense of the word. He is denied, ignored, excluded from every claim to have a part in our daily life." - Alfred Delp, S.J.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Goobye

I just got word Gerald is definitely closing the Cafeteria and starting up a new blog on Wordpress. No further information available.

5 comments:

I like Gerald. Some of the commenters on his blog are just way too concerned w/themselves & ensuring they *admonish the sinner* with relish (and sometimes catsup & mustard, too).

It is important to fraternally correct one if one is in error, but it's not our responsibility to make a mission out of angrily converting someone. Either a person accepts the truth or they don't. Let them go with God and pray for them.

This cracks me up. Especially when they slap each other around,just like my little darlings at home.I wish that it was as funny at home.Stan,and Ollie are funny,but they can't hold a candle to Buster!! We LOVE Buster Keaton. Good -by .

Gerald's is a classic story of what happens when one steps out on the slippery slope. This should be a caution to all Catholics who are currently where Gerald first started out: at the pro-war/neo-con/Zionist/Republican-party-as-Magisterium stand. It's a quick slide down from there.

I love the line "sin makes you stupid" which Mark Shea (another convert, but thank goodness still seems to be keeping his head about Church teachings and politics). This is SO true! I see it in my own life, as well as in the many examples in the "Catholic blogosphere".

"Some of the commenters on his blog are just way too concerned w/themselves & ensuring they *admonish the sinner* with relish (and sometimes catsup & mustard, too)."I like doughboy's comment better; I've noticed the same thing. No one will change Gerald's mind when the Church's teaching is rolled up and used to smack him upside the head.

Veritatis Splendor

About Me

... My idea of what I am is falsified by my preoccupation about what I do. And my illusions about myself are bred by contagion from the illusions of other men. We all seek to emulate one anothers imagined greatness....If I do not know who I am, it is because I think I am the sort of person everyone around me wants me to be. I have asked myself whether I wanted to become what everybody else seems to want to become... only to realize that I do not admire what everyone else seems to admire. I have only thus begun to live after all... But it is very late. - Adapted from a quote by Thomas Merton

Holy Face of Jesus

Show us your face and we shall be saved. "Each soul is the object of My special love. That is why I am so grateful to those who are resourceful and bringing back sinners to Me. Keep this in mind then. I gave My life for them in the most atrocious torture, for these poor beloved ones. A humble repentance, and they are already on My heart. So speak gently to them. Speak with tenderness. A brusque remark could drive them farther away." - He and I

Prayer to St. Michael

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.

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